Style and rhetoric and other papersA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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Pagina 215
... Xenophon . We acknow- ledge a sneaking hatred towards the whole household , founded chiefly on the intense feeling we entertain that all three were humbugs . We own the stony impeachment . Aristotle , who may be looked upon as literary ...
... Xenophon . We acknow- ledge a sneaking hatred towards the whole household , founded chiefly on the intense feeling we entertain that all three were humbugs . We own the stony impeachment . Aristotle , who may be looked upon as literary ...
Pagina 216
... ton of coals . For Xenophon uniformly introduces the worthy hen - pecked philosopher as prattling innocent nothings , more limpid than small beer ; whilst Plato neve lets him condescend to any theme less remote from humanity 216 STYLE.
... ton of coals . For Xenophon uniformly introduces the worthy hen - pecked philosopher as prattling innocent nothings , more limpid than small beer ; whilst Plato neve lets him condescend to any theme less remote from humanity 216 STYLE.
Pagina 217
... Xenophon , he reminds us much of an elderly hen , superannuated a little , pirouetting to " the hen's march , " and clucking vociferously ; with Plato , he seems much like a deep - mouthed hound in a chase after some unknown but ...
... Xenophon , he reminds us much of an elderly hen , superannuated a little , pirouetting to " the hen's march , " and clucking vociferously ; with Plato , he seems much like a deep - mouthed hound in a chase after some unknown but ...
Pagina 218
... Xenophon must have hated each other with a theological hatred , it is a clear case that they would not have harmonized in anything if they had supposed it open to evasion . They would have got another atmosphere had it been possible ...
... Xenophon must have hated each other with a theological hatred , it is a clear case that they would not have harmonized in anything if they had supposed it open to evasion . They would have got another atmosphere had it been possible ...
Pagina 220
... Xenophon which are insisted on as essential . Accidental hints and casual sug- gestions cannot be viewed as doctrines in that sense which is necessary to establish a separate school . And all the German Tiedemanns and Tennemanns , the ...
... Xenophon which are insisted on as essential . Accidental hints and casual sug- gestions cannot be viewed as doctrines in that sense which is necessary to establish a separate school . And all the German Tiedemanns and Tennemanns , the ...
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Pagina 29 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
Pagina 49 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Pagina 48 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of his kindred and coeval towers...
Pagina 112 - And, last of all, an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name, A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Pagina 82 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 31 - Few writers have shown a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne ; for he combined — what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.
Pagina 66 - Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain.
Pagina 49 - ... and each other's rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity,— as long as these endure so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together; the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt.
Pagina 186 - It makes us blush to add, that even grammar .is so little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous age,) we have never seen the writer, through a circuit of prodigious reading, who has not sometimes violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar.
Pagina 48 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended...